Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem has won two deals worth $1bn from Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company. Both involve the installation of platforms in the waters of the…

Chinese firm Shengli Oilfield Keer Engineering (Sokec) has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Sudan’s state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) to finance and build an oil refinery and storage…

Fast-growing Ghana has broken ground on the $12bn first phase of the planned $60bn Petroleum Hub, set to be Africa’s first integrated petrochemical complex, local media report. Intended to capture…

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a masterplan for a 365,000 sq m seafront park on the site of a former oil refinery. The masterplan will open up a previously…

China’s national oil company has begun turning underground caverns into an oil storage facility able to hold 3 million cubic metres of crude oil in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. China National…

Indian contractor Megha Engineering and Infrastructure (MEIL) has been awarded a $648m contract to build Mongolia’s first greenfield oil refinery.  The agreement was signed in Ulaanbaatar on Friday.  The Hyderabad-based…

Russian and Chinese companies have agreed a deal to invest $686m in a Siberian oil transhipment complex, the Reuters news agency reports.

Work has finished on Canada’s first standalone renewable diesel refinery in Prince George, British Columbia. The US$290m scheme was built by Tidewater Renewables, which makes renewable diesel and green hydrogen.…

Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make the 18ha Hangzhou Oil Refinery…

Iran’s national oil refining company has won a €110m contract to fix a Venezuelan oil refinery, and expects to sign a second deal worth €460m in the coming weeks, Reuters…

Hyderabad-based civil engineer Megha Engineering & Infrastructures (MEIL) has won a $790m contract to build Mongolia’s first ever oil refinery. MEIL will also build a pipeline and a power plant.…